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- ZDNet Author Biography
Dan Farber is vice-president of editorial at CNET Networks and editor in chief of ZDNet. Dan has more than 20 years of experience as an editor and journalist covering technology. He joined ZDNet in 1996, and led the development of ZDNet's worldwide network of more than 70 technology-focused...- more about Dan Farber »
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- Siebel (Oracle) CRM mashes up with WebEx (Cisco)
- Oracle and Cisco are mashing up their on demand services, with Oracle's Siebel CRM On Demand offering running on Cisco's WebEx Connect application platform. The Oracle mashup appears to be a way for Cisco WebEx to demonstrate that it has some traction with its composite application platform, competing with the...
- Tags: WebEx Communications Inc., Oracle Corp., Siebel Systems Inc., Cisco Systems Inc., CRM, Oracle Mashup, WebEx Connect Platform, Dan Farber
- Blog posts 2007-10-23
- Web 2.0 Expo: WebEx Connect seeks developers
- Last year WebEx launched WebEx Connect, an on demand development platform for collaborative, composite mashup applications. At the Web 2.0 Expo, the company announced Connect Developer Network that includes tools, community resources and marketing programs for participants. WebEx claims that its distribution, integration and monetization platform will...
- Tags: Web Technology, Web 2.0 Expo, Salesforce.com, SaaS, IT Management, General, Enterprise 2.0
- Blog posts 2007-04-16
- Cisco: The giant network squid
- Over the last 27 months Cisco has made 25 acquisitions, spending billions to increase its footprint and share of wallet among customers. Since 1993, the company has scooped up over 115 companies. Today, Cisco announced a definitive agreement to acquire on demand collaboration provider WebEx for $3.2 billion. WebEx did...
- Tags: NETWORKING, Cisco Systems Inc., network, WebEx Communications Inc.
- Blog posts 2007-03-15
- WebEx expands platform with workflow and apps
- WebEx is pushing beyond the boundaries of its Web conferencing, adding a custom workflow engine and composite application framework to its collaborative environment. The new service, called WebEx Connect, is due for release in Q1 2007, and is built on the company’s on-demand MediaTone network. WebEx Connect takes a bottoms...
- Tags: WebEx Communications Inc.
- Blog posts 2006-09-26
- Subrah Iyar: WebEx CEO seeks more intelligent interactions
- WebEx CEO Subrah Iyar has built an on demand software company with 1.7 million subscribers,23,000 customers, 50,000 meetings a day, over $308 million in revenue. More than 99 percent of the revenue comes from the real-time meeting solutions that run on its MediaTone network. Last year, WebEx bought Internets.com, now...
- Tags: Subrah Iyar, WebEx Communications Inc.
- Blog posts 2006-04-05
- WebEx goes for the WebOffice
- The upstart poster child for on demand, software-as-a-service has been salesforce.com, in part due to the vision, evangelism and trash talking of its CEO Marc Benioff. In the on demand CRM space, salesforce.com competes against the likes of Oracle/Siebel Online, NetSuite, RightNow, SugarCRM and Microsoft's forthcoming entrant, but for...
- Tags: WebEx Communications Inc.
- Blog posts 2005-11-13
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- Attack code published for DNS flaw
- The urgency to patch Dan Kaminsky's DNS cache poisoning vulnerability just went up a few notches. Exploit code for the flaw, which allows the insertion of malicious DNS records into the cache of the target nameserver, has been added to Metasploit, a freely distributed attack/pen-testing tool....
- Tags: Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-07-23
- NY gov signs game bill into law
- New York State legislation that will have made it illegal to sell or rent some violent games to minors was signed was signed into law. A bill that will have made it illegal to sell or rent some violent games to minors was signed into law Tuesday by New...
- Tags: Law, Minor, Games, Personal Technology, video games, video game violence, Nintendo DS, New York, Brendan Sinclair, GameSpot
- News items 2008-07-23
- Virtual Iron Customer Profile: Goodell DeVries Leech & Dann, LLP
- I had the chance to speak with Goodell DeVries Leech & Dann's David Roden, a few questions about their use of Virtual Iron's virtual server environment. Thanks for spending time with me, David! Here are my questions and David's answers: Who are you and what...
- Tags: Virtual Iron, Server Virtualization, Disaster Recovery, Virtualization, Servers, Hardware, Data Management, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-07-23
- News to know: Yahoo; VMware; Apple; DNS vulnerability
- Notable headlines: Ryan Naraine: Vulnerability disclosure gone awry: Understanding the DNS debacle RIM ships fix for BlackBerry code execution bug Dancho Danchev: Georgia President's web site under DDoS attack from Russian hackers 75% of online banking sites found vulnerable to security design...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Google Inc., Larry Dignan, DNS, Yahoo! Inc., Vulnerability, Dana Blankenhorn, Health Care, Apple Inc., VMware Inc., App Store, Banking, Vertical Industries, Domain Names, Benefits, Healthcare, Security, Financial Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Internet, Human Resources
- Blog posts 2008-07-23
- Vulnerability disclosure gone awry: Understanding the DNS debacle
- Vulnerability disclosure gone awry: Understanding the DNS debacleI think he deserved better for sureYou know, Dan does manipulate the media well, but I'll tell you this, he's a stand-up guy. Did he try to drum up the press a bit? Sure, why not? Did he choose his...
- Tags: Domain names, Advertising & Promotion, Dan, DNS
- Discussion threads 2008-07-22
- Vulnerability disclosure gone awry: Understanding the DNS debacle
- On July 7, the day before the release of the patch for the now infamous DNS design flaw, hacker Dan Kaminsky with the help of Black Hat conference organizers invited reporters to a press conference to "discuss the massive multivendor patch being released this Tuesday." "A synchronized...
- Tags: Black Hat, DNS, Conference, Dan Kaminsky, Thomas Ptacek, Domain Names, Patches, Security, Networking, Internet, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-07-22
- 10 hard drive disasters
- Deaths at the hands of bananas, smelly socks and WD-40 are some of the unusual fates to have befallen innocent hard drives, according to a data recovery company. Deaths at the hands of bananas, smelly socks and WD-40 are some of the unusual fates to have befallen innocent hard...
- Tags: Hard Drive, hard drives, data recovery, Dan Ilett, Silicon.com
- News items 2008-07-22
- VMware and common performance myths
- Rich McDougall and Scott Drummand, performance gurus over at VMware, presented a fantastic review of some of the performance testing VMware has been doing at the VMware analyst day. I posted something about the findings of that research in the post, Is VMware busting the virtualization tax myth. I've just...
- Tags: Virtualization, Performance, VMware Inc., Performance Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-07-22
- News to know: Apple, Crapware; Icahn and Yahoo; Brocade
- Notable headlines: Larry Dignan: Apple's Mac shipments surge; Lowballs on outlook; Jobs health worries Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Apple reports record Q3 08 Does Apple need to announce a post Steve Jobs plan? Dennis Howlett: Apple chaos theory Jason O'Grady: Apple Q3 2008...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Sony Corp., Facebook, Larry Dignan, Yahoo! Inc., Brocade Communications Systems Inc., Apple Inc., Mice, Utility Computing, 3G, Open Source, Hardware, Peripherals, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology
- Blog posts 2008-07-22
- Has Halvar figured out super-secret DNS vulnerability?
- Has Halvar figured out super-secret DNS vulnerability?Good Lord!Whatever does happen, this has been fun to read about.in summaryHalvar's approach is to play a game in which you win with a low probability. If you are able to win the race with the authoritative server and guess one TXID, you...
- Tags: Games, Domain names, Halvar, TXID, game, DNS
- Discussion threads 2008-07-21
- Has Halvar figured out super-secret DNS vulnerability?
- [ UPDATE: Kaminsky has all but confirmed that, yes, the cat is out of the bag ] It looks very much like the nitty gritty of Dan Kaminsky's super-secret -- and heavily hyped -- DNS cache poisoning vulnerability has been figured out by reverse engineering guru Halvar...
- Tags: DNS, Vulnerability, Server, Referral, Mallory, Domain Names, Networking, Security, Internet, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-07-21
- 2008 Pwnie Award nominees announced
- Well, after getting 134 nominations, and spending countless hours pulling out nominees, the judges for the 2008 Pwnie Awards have announced the final nominees to be voted on. From the site: The final list of nominees for the nine Pwnie Award categories is ...
- Tags: Nominee, Vulnerability, XSS, Attack, Flaw, Dan, XSS Flaw, Lifelock, Security, Nathan McFeters
- Blog posts 2008-07-21
- Apple chaos theory
- I got a fairly lukewarm response to my excitement over Oracle putting applications on the iPhone. That should be no surprise to readers of Fortune which also poured cold water on the idea that iPhone's are going to be the next big thing in corporate gadgets: Companies in highly...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, CIO, Theory, Information Technology, Apple Inc., Strategy, Management, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-07-21
- Yahoo, Icahn settle proxy fight: Icahn on board
- Yahoo, Icahn settle proxy fight: Icahn on boardIcahnThe cancer of the communications industry. He's almost so big the body can't reject his attacks and soon the it will die along with it's customers, not to mention all the jobs lost. Maybe he will sell it's soul to another country before...
- Tags: Corporate governance, board, Icahn, Yahoo! Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-07-21
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